Top-50 Websites – Ranked by Unique Visitors; Digg.com, Facebook, Flickr sky rocketing
Written by Jay Meattle (contact - e-mail) -- October 30th, 2007 | Share - Save - E-mail
Key Observations (Winners list):
- The Emergence of Content Sharing: 5 of the top 10 gainers having something to do with sharing content (YouTube, Flickr, Facebook, Wikipedia, Digg).
- Traffic to Facebook.com has increased by 14.6M, but hold on…traffic to MySpace.com has also increased by 10.2M during the same time period.
- AdultFriendFinder.com continues to thrive with nearly 24M unique visitors (up 8.8M this year), but look out AFF, Fling.com is catching up with you quickly. Fling has gained a whopping 17.4M visitors in the past 12 months to reach 18.7M unique visitors in September.
- Rebranding of Cingular to AT&T helped out ATT.com. All Cingular.com traffic is now channeled to wireless.att.com
- Digg has been growing faster than Facebook!
| Biggest gainers: | Sept ‘07 Unique Visitors |
Sept ‘06 | Change |
| 1. youtube.com | 47,417,527 | 25,860,510 | 21,557,017 |
| 2. flickr.com | 25,278,501 | 7,382,573 | 17,895,929 |
| 3. fling.com | 18,702,338 | 1,284,273 | 17,418,065 |
| 4. wikipedia.org | 51,648,465 | 35,650,551 | 15,997,914 |
| 5. digg.com | 18,401,139 | 2,854,646 | 15,546,493 |
| 6. google.com | 124,544,834 | 109,080,418 | 15,464,416 |
| 7. att.com | 17,984,849 | 3,221,543 | 14,763,306 |
| 8. facebook.com | 24,211,448 | 9,545,359 | 14,666,089 |
| 9. turn.com | 14,296,976 | 628,718 | 13,668,258 |
| 10. yahoo.com | 130,078,549 | 116,961,340 | 13,117,209 |
Key Observations (Losers list):
- Traffic declined to only 8 domains in the Top 50 (Sept ‘07).
- Two Amazon properties on the list – IMDB.com and Amazon.com
- Two Microsoft properties on the list – Passport.net and MSN.com. My guess is that most of their lost traffic went to Live.com, MSN’s new portal. Live.com is up 10.2M unique visitors during the same time period.
| Biggest losers: | Sept ‘07 Unique Visitors |
Sept ‘06 | Change |
| 1. aol.com | 62,201,981 | 72,859,584 | (10,657,602) |
| 2. passport.net | 16,605,856 | 23,056,010 | (6,450,155) |
| 3. msn.com | 72,402,712 | 78,701,909 | (6,299,197) |
| 4. geocities.com | 16,086,159 | 20,300,659 | (4,214,500) |
| 5. amazon.com | 42,420,889 | 45,417,807 | (2,996,918) |
| 6. weather.com | 16,002,964 | 18,709,799 | (2,706,835) |
| 7. expedia.com | 13,564,006 | 14,087,085 | (523,079) |
| 8. imdb.com | 16,390,522 | 16,705,447 | (314,925) |
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October 30th, 2007 at 4:20 pm
Top-50 Websites: Digg.com, YouTube, Flickr, Facebook sky rocketing; The Emergence of Content Sharing
Top-50 U.S. Websites (September 2007). Digg has been growing faster than Facebook!
October 31st, 2007 at 2:13 am
It would be nice to get an additional post with more detailed demographics – if possible.
One valuable insight would be the median education and income levels of the visitors to each site in the Top 50.
Also which visitors are primarily consumers vrs business or corporate. One would presume that Chase and Career builder and live and CNN might be worlds apart from Coupons and aaValue
November 19th, 2007 at 12:27 pm
It’s craigslist.org, not .com
November 20th, 2007 at 2:44 pm
I’m thinking at it would be good, following on Search Engines to see results segmented by industry type. Who’s the most searched upon computer, software, social web, blog, etc. http://epaper.hubspot.com is going to rank very low! http://www.hubspot might rank very high though!
November 23rd, 2007 at 1:42 pm
I found that traffic from social bookmarking is un targeted , no conversions on revenue , Search engines are best :)
Tulip
December 3rd, 2007 at 12:39 am
Interesting how Yahoo still ranks above Google. I guess when you weigh together all Google owned domains though (like gmail, youtube, etc) they are really tops.
December 18th, 2007 at 5:15 am
If you add up all the Yahoo domains it ranks above Google, according to both ComsScore and Nielsen Net Ratings. For a so-called “has-been” site, Yahoo and its various properties (Flickr, for example) are doing very well.
January 9th, 2008 at 10:53 am
i am surprirsed that yahoo is still getting huge traffic
January 18th, 2008 at 4:11 am
i can’t believe yahoo it’s the first!!!!
January 24th, 2008 at 6:04 am
I would have put google 1st by a long shot.
Well done yahoo
February 5th, 2008 at 1:13 pm
Oh to have that many visitors coming to my websites. Great list.
February 8th, 2008 at 12:08 pm
wow. thanks for the informative list!
February 14th, 2008 at 12:10 pm
I fail to understand why Yahoo is at the top..I am sure all Google services when put together out-class Yahoo.
February 15th, 2008 at 10:00 pm
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If you’ve got lots of traffic to your blog, go to http://www.barackobama.com/downloadsv2/, grab one of his banners and stick it in the sidebar of your blog linking to his site!
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March 14th, 2008 at 11:13 am
Yahoo is higher than Goggle? No Way!
March 20th, 2008 at 12:43 pm
I thing google will get first rank (more contacts visit http://AtooooZ.blogspot.com)
March 23rd, 2008 at 10:10 am
My website seems to be missing from the list – http://www.andrewmcgovernonline.com
March 27th, 2008 at 11:04 am
This must not include the top 50 porn sites.
April 9th, 2008 at 6:03 am
Since MS has their .com site, plus live and MSN they would appear higher on the list. Then look at Google who is in the top 500 about 25 times with their country specific sites (I wrote an article about this last month). I would love to see the chart of these mixes were put together. MS and Google would basically be the only 2 companies on the interent.
April 30th, 2008 at 12:12 am
I would kill to have that kind of traffic or even just for a permanent link on the homepage of one of those sites….. I really would!
April 30th, 2008 at 10:10 pm
Google will overtake Yahoo soon. But if Microsoft buys Yahoo, then they’ll be #1 again.
I wish you guys would visit my site.
http://www.bestsnippets.com
May 1st, 2008 at 6:07 am
it looks like that the customer changes, and seems that social bookmarking will be the leader again in this year :)
May 15th, 2008 at 4:29 pm
i dont think that is true cause this porn-site called http://www.redtube.com is the most visited webpage in last year. it doubled google. so i think thats the winna
June 16th, 2008 at 1:20 am
google 1
gmail 1
inbox
aol
metacafe
?????????
October 9th, 2008 at 9:19 pm
Oh my god, im so far away from this sides. pffff
regards
October 13th, 2008 at 7:42 am
wow great list
October 15th, 2008 at 3:43 am
Yes , i think that redtube and youtube are the winners
October 19th, 2008 at 3:11 pm
Thaught youporn is on the 1st place?
April 21st, 2009 at 9:28 am
woww i wish my page will be in that top 50 too..It is an awesome website.
April 27th, 2009 at 3:26 pm
google is far better than yahoo
June 16th, 2009 at 4:54 pm
hey this are so visited but dont forget habbo and mygamebuilder!
July 22nd, 2009 at 5:51 pm
Просто отлично. Подпишусь-ка я на РСС пожалуй. :)
August 18th, 2009 at 7:56 pm
Хорошая статья. Буду ждать продолжения. Эта тема безусловно интересна всем.
August 22nd, 2009 at 1:50 pm
Благодарю, пост действительно толково написан и по делу, есть что почерпнуть.
August 23rd, 2009 at 1:15 am
The stuff on this web site is really witty and cool wise
September 9th, 2009 at 6:03 am
cool article
September 28th, 2009 at 5:06 am
Damn. I’m really far away from this sites.:)
October 12th, 2009 at 2:27 pm
Me also use compete.com many times for my site.
October 26th, 2009 at 8:17 am
amazing, the rise and fall of yahoo!! :)
November 8th, 2009 at 5:00 am
my site needs to be on that list :)
it’s funny how the web changes… sites come and sites go.
November 10th, 2009 at 8:28 am
hi my dear,let us stay in connected.
December 7th, 2009 at 11:32 am
today Google is one of the most visited site in internet
December 23rd, 2009 at 1:46 pm
great list indeed.
January 29th, 2010 at 8:11 pm
Thanks for this article, well done :)
February 8th, 2010 at 6:52 pm
Thanks for this great article, well done :)